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I recently had a creepy shoot, and the model was painted all white with dark black features. The white paint was super reflective and kept coming out very over exposed. I tried turning down my exposure and the lights, as well as moving the lights further away. But everything I tried made her blacks fade into the background and lose detail. I settled for slightly over exposed, but now that I am trying to correct it in light room, it's not working. When I pull the highlights down, the image turns a weird grey color and looks flat and odd. Any suggestions for fixing the over exposure without ruining detail of the image?  Apr 15 15 03:05 pm Link Create a composite image from multiple exposures. Have a nice day!  Apr 15 15 05:09 pm Link If you want something more like this, all I did was use levels in photoshop and played with the opacity  Apr 15 15 05:17 pm Link Here's one potential solution.  Notice that your brights are significantly toned down. What I did was take your image and move into LAB, where luminosity and color are separated in different channels. Then, I simply adjusted your lightness down. You can try different shaped curves, or increase/decrease the amount or whatever.  Next, I wanted the reduced brightness to affect only the brightest parts of your picture. I didn't want to darken the fingers. Perhaps you do. You can examine the mask and delete or adjust the mask to your liking. So for the Lightness layer mask, I performed the following commands.  - Select mask - Image > Apply Image (See below)  (You'll notice that I used "multiply" blend mode. I could have used Normal. I would get the same result in this situation.) Once I applied the image to the mask, I then blurred the mask at 2 pixels. (Had I blurred at 6-8 pixels, I would have gotten a better result.) Depending on your resolution, I would increase the blur. For a crop or full sized camera, try 20 - 45 pixels on the mask. It will increase the sharpness of your result. I noticed that your "white" was slightly blue and green by one or two points. So the top layer AB adjust the AB curves one or two points. It is almost unnoticeable. If you bring my result into Photoshop, you'll notice that the white skin is very close to neutral. That is RGB are all nearly equal. It varies slightly depending on where you take your sample. Flattened the file and went to RGB. Saved the file and showed you the result. Also, you can try NOT flattening the file and going to RGB. Flatten in RGB. See if you like the result better. I think if you play with this general solution, you'll get the answer you are looking for. Play with the curve, mask, AB channels to adjust colors, if you wish. I hope this helps. Good luck. Apr 15 15 07:23 pm Link
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Reason: not helpful Comments: Please offer some constructive or don't post. Apr 15 15 09:00 pm Link Joe Diamond wrote: What is your problem? Unless you have something constructive to offer stfu. Apr 15 15 09:32 pm Link I see a lot of frustration here, sending me a private message and q.q for my post and after that posting here, you have a lot of free time If i had something constructive to say that would be probably reshoot in my opinion, but as retouching i dont have the skills or the knowledge to fix this image, therefore i rather guide him where to find some potential solutions instead of thinking that i am a ps guru who offer the best solution. Apr 16 15 03:06 am Link Penumbra Photography wrote: Penumbra, nice file and shoot, but here I can see problem with setting -over exposed file. Apr 16 15 03:41 am Link Joe Diamond wrote: Exactly, you had nothing constructive to say other than to provide another avenue. We agree completely on this point. Even a moderator seems to agree with me. Your prior post has been zapped. Apr 16 15 05:47 am Link Thank you all for the suggestions. Apr 16 15 08:02 am Link |
